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Cloudflare: The Company That Sits in Front of the Internet
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Cloudflare's origin story begins with Project Honey Pot, a spam-trapping side project built by lawyer-turned-entrepreneur Matthew Prince and engineer Lee Holloway. Prince later teamed up with ex-Google product manager Michelle Zatlyn at Harvard Business School, and together they turned the idea into a company that launched at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2010. This deep dive covers the founders' backgrounds, the freemium, network-effect business model, and how Cloudflare grew from a startup into a NYSE-listed internet infrastructure giant. It explains how the company tackled major security problems, including record DDoS attacks like Spamhaus, Heartbleed, Universal SSL and bot management, and it looks at the setbacks along the way, such as Cloudbleed and the 2025 outage. It also covers Workers, 1.1.1.1 and R2, and Cloudflare's new push to help publishers charge AI crawlers.
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10 Oct 2026
WeWork: From a Brooklyn desk-sharing experiment to a $47 billion valuation, a failed IPO, bankruptcy, and a quiet second life.
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The WeWork story, from Adam Neumann and Miguel McKelvey’s Greendesk origins to the SoftBank billions, the failed 2019 IPO, bankruptcy, and WeWork’s quieter comeback in 2026.
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The full WeWork story: Adam Neumann, SoftBank’s billions, the failed IPO, bankruptcy, and how WeWork looks today.
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3 Oct 2026
The Dyson Origin Story: 5,127 Prototypes and a Bagless Revolution
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What does it take to build a billion-pound company? For James Dyson, it took 5,127 failed prototypes, a wife who paid the bills for five years, and an entire industry that said no. This is the full Dyson origin story: how a frustrated vacuum owner in 1978 turned a cardboard cyclone into the bagless vacuum that beat Hoover on its home turf. We trace James Dyson's journey from a Norfolk childhood and the Ballbarrow betrayal, through the invention of dual cyclone technology and the G-Force licensing deal in Japan, to the launch of the DC01, the patent war with Hoover, the abandoned electric car, and the global tech brand Dyson is today. If you want to know how Dyson started, how the company found product-market fit, and what founders can learn from it, read on.
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